Jim O'Donnell
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Jim O'Donnell: Sparkling no-budget doc 'Last Comiskey' is an every fan's 'To Sox With Love'Mar 05, 2023 4:30 am - BILL VEECK ONCE SAID, “To be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.” But the old Comiskey Park was never intended to be a baseball confessional. It ...
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Jim O'Donnell: New audience numbers keep "The Score" and AM-1000 inside of a radio AlamoMar 01, 2023 12:00 am - THE MONTHLY RADIO NARRATIVE has become so predictable that it may as well require only one templated keystroke on better sports media laptops everywhere. In the most re...
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Jim O'Donnell: Charles Barkley to CNN? Please hold all punditsFeb 25, 2023 4:30 am - ON THE SEA OF VACUITY that passes for much of contemporary sports media, give Charles Barkley credit: The Round Mound remains "box office." That's why credible reports t...
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Jim O'Donnell: Mayor Billy McKinney is back bringing grace and smarts to Northwestern basketballFeb 22, 2023 12:00 am - WHATEVER THE REALITIES, the Sheridan Road shufflers at Northwestern University relish the thought that they have a special sort of class. With Billy McKinney back in the...
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O'Donnell: A new Robert Reich video suggests slow brakes on any tax money for the BearsFeb 19, 2023 5:00 am - WHILE IT WOULD BE REFRESHING to take a short weekend break from the mounting drama over the possible move of the Bears to Arlington Park, that sanctuary doesn't come eas...
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Jim O'Donnell: Ten-star lock to scratch a risk itch and win on Super Bowl SundayFeb 12, 2023 4:30 am - SUPER BOWL SUNDAY TENDS TO BRING OUT the speculator within. From Q-tips at the American Legion Hall with their $1 squares to seriously buried types and their illegal onl...
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O'Donnell: Cubs, Bears, Sox - where didn't Andy McKenna leave his mark?Feb 08, 2023 12:00 am - IN THE IMMEDIATE MOMENTS after Harry Caray called his inaugural game at Wrigley Field as a Cubs play-by-play man, he wanted to see only one man. And it wasn't Milo Hamil...
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Jim O'Donnell: Online series about Arlington Park auctions is Kleenex reading for someFeb 05, 2023 4:30 am - AS A GENERAL RULE, autopsy reports are not recommended reading for the "Headspace"/meditation crowd. And some might say that Patti Davis did not produce merely a summary...
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Jim O'Donnell: Both "The Score" and AM-1000 remain lost in spaceFeb 01, 2023 12:00 am - TAKE ONE FLOUNDERING CAPTIVE SPORTS CITY and mix in two feeble sports talk radio stations and what's the result? Like Billy Preston once sang, "Nothin' from nothin' leav...
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Jim O'Donnell: Swanson, Benintendi stoke the hot stove Ins and Outs of a clement JanuaryJan 22, 2023 5:00 am - MILD ADO ABOUT SOMETHING, spotlighting highs and lows as the inexorable trek toward Super Bowl 57 rambles on: In - Applauding the return of some Hot Stove League to Chi...